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Dist:0.2km<br/>Holwell is a small quiet hamlet with a population of approximately 130. It was once the home of a busy iron ore mine, see http://www.meltonline.co.uk/pp/gold/viewgold.asp?ID=1624 for more info
©Kate Jewell
Dist:0.2km<br/>The pile of metalwork on the grass is a former form. Hall Farm has the look of a former farm.
©Andrew Tatlow
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©gary radford
Dist:0.3km<br/>This bridge carries a private road over the abandoned Holwell mineral branch. It was made by W Richards & Son, Leicester. The picture was taken from the fence marking the boundary of the nature reserve.
©Richard Green
Dist:0.4km<br/>This bridge carries Main Street, Holwell, over the abandoned Holwell branch. The railway has been converted into an attractive nature reserve at this point. The bridge has the maker's plate of W Richards & Sons, Leicester, and has the ELR HLB9 (maintenance is still the responsibility of BR's successors).
©Richard Green
Dist:0.4km<br/>Enter this area at your peril!. Actually this road is used frequently by traffic going to the north of Melton. I've never heard of anyone having an accident due to falling into an old mine shaft since I've lived in the area.
©Kate Jewell
Dist:0.5km<br/>Royal Mail letterbox LE14 96 is conveniently placed for houses between Holwell and Ab Kettleby.
©Andrew Tatlow
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©Andrew Tatlow
Dist:0.5km<br/>A Leicestershire & Rutland Wildlife Trust site.
©Lisa Batty
Dist:0.6km<br/>This electricity sub-station was used to supply current to the electrically powered excavators used from 1945 to 1962 to extract ironstone from Holwell No. 1 quarry.
©Richard Green
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©gary radford
Dist:0.6km<br/>A late summer's evening and it is pouring with rain!
©Andrew Tatlow
Dist:0.7km<br/>No doubt about this gate! Impossible to leave open as it's so heavy. The cattle grid on the OS map has been removed and the horse and livestock gate to the left is blocked up.
©Kate Jewell
Dist:0.7km<br/>The mine was in use from 1931 to 1943. The ore was taken away by a narrow gauge tramway: trucks were lowered down an incline and tippled into railway wagons at a siding on the Holwell mineral branch. The entrance has been altered from the original square portal (outlined by the small blocks surrounding the new circular grilled entrance). The mine is now a home to several species of bat.
©Richard Green
Dist:0.7km<br/>The end of the main mining gallery from the Brown's Hill ironstone mine, which broke through to Holwell No. 1 quarry at the end of 1942. It has been protected by a concrete frame and grid to enable the bats which live in the abandoned mine to enter and leave. Its current position shows the land to be unstable.
©Richard Green

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